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Welcome to Aaron Menke's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of IHeart Radio and grim and mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities.

Let me tell you a curious story, from South Munster in Ireland, before recorded history.

A chieftain falls in battle, dying of his injuries, he crawls to the banks of the River

Lee, and there he lies upon a large flat stone and waits to die.

Now, his identity has been lost to time, but not so for the woman who finds him by the river.

She was the queen of the fairies, a woman of immense power. For many years, she had doted on

this chieftain, but she had been unable to win his love. As his blood ran onto the stone at the

river's edge, she wept for him, her tears mixing with the blood upon the rock. She kissed the stone

as well, and with the gesture, her powers sank into the mineral itself. Countless centuries

later, in the 15th century, Cormick Lardit McCarthy, 9th Lord of Muscary, was facing a dilemma.

He was to appear before Queen Elizabeth I to make an appeal

to keep his ancestral lands. On the eve of this appearance, he prayed to the pagan goddess,

Cleina. That night, he would be visited by this very same queen of the fairies, and she told him that

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